Wikipedia, stick some banner ads on your site and stop begging!
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Except it's the same project. If they retargeted me to donate to a new project like fighting this government bill or launching a new school in Uganda, sure, but they're targeting me for the same shit that I'm already donating for.
When you use Google Remarketing do you target the same guy after he's already converted and on auto-rebill? (for the SAME offer)
They can put any kind of ad on there, not sure why they don't want too, they act like it will be a hostile take over if there are ads on there.
Yeah, scraping the wayback machine made me a good bit of money over the years. They have provided me some of my most profitable stuff for the least amount of work I've done. I love them.
The thing I hate the most about Wikipedia is they've got heavily biased reddit-style censorship on certain topics that are controversial or political.
I feel kind of bad saying it, because I do like Wikipedia and do use it, but if they didn't exist, I wouldn't be losing a moment's sleep over it.
The void would be filled by Google in 20 seconds using all their scraped content. No I don't like Google, but at the same time I don't give a shit about Jimmy and don't care who provides the information, ads or not. As long as it's not Yahoo that is. I'd pay for it to not be Yahoo. Or Microsoft. Or some other stuck in the 1990's arse-hat.
The void would be filled by Google in 20 seconds using all their scraped content. No I don't like Google, but at the same time I don't give a shit about Jimmy and don't care who provides the information, ads or not. As long as it's not Yahoo that is. I'd pay for it to not be Yahoo. Or Microsoft. Or some other stuck in the 1990's arse-hat.
Slighty offtopic but does anyone know how much bandwidth Wikipedia uses daily? Just wondering what the ballpark cost would be. It has to be astronomical.
If they ever started their own text ad platform, it would be the next gold rush. Remember when facebook ads first came out and before it was super regulated...
If they ever started their own text ad platform, it would be the next gold rush. Remember when facebook ads first came out and before it was super regulated...
Oh fuck me...
You know what the difference is between this
and this
The former is fact checked and will publish corrections while the latter is biased and will attempt to hide any evidence of fuck ups.
If you want to donate, go nuts, but the difference between Jimmy begging for money and one weird trick is... the wording.
I donated to wikipedia only because I would hate to see fukin ads. I also get backlinks and pages from their, so they actually help me out for rankings - so why not help them out ;-)
My view is that they're pretty much awash with cash. I love wiki but I don't think they're begging for money just to survive
Who cares? Wikipedia delivers a lot of value to their users for free. I agree, their donation banner looks hideous, but I'm still able to digest their content with ease. Oh, and they don't owe me anything.
I like what Wikipedia has built. I don't think they're an altruistic source for facts, but I think they've done a good job of releasing the reign of information from the one to the many while managing all of the pitfalls that come with it.
I like what Wikipedia has built. I don't think they're an altruistic source for facts, but I think they've done a good job of releasing the reign of information from the one to the many while managing all of the pitfalls that come with it.
